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Orbital elements: 2013 BB74 Earth MOID = 0.0228 AU Epoch 2013 Apr. 18.0 TT = JDT 2456400.5 MPC M 129.51971 (2000.0) P Q n 0.88206110 Peri. 96.23015 +0.65369621 -0.72848331 a 1.0768047 Node 310.78634 +0.54192508 +0.63963892 e 0.1971932 Incl. 15.70294 +0.52820306 +0.24530415 P 1.12 H 26.3...

Orbital elements: 2013 BC74 Earth MOID = 0.0505 AU Epoch 2013 Apr. 18.0 TT = JDT 2456400.5 MPC M 75.44690 (2000.0) P Q n 0.60092745 Peri. 123.98808 +0.23783047 -0.93843697 a 1.3907680 Node 310.17742 +0.74737663 +0.34155750 e 0.3298150 Incl. 19.14237 +0.62037476 -0.05171581 P 1.64 H 23.2...

Title: Stellar populations and evolution of early-type cluster galaxies: Constraints from optical imaging and spectroscopy of z=0.5-0.9 galaxy clusters Authors: Inger Jorgensen, Kristin Chiboucas (Gemini Observatory) We present an analysis of stellar populations and evolutionary histo...

Salyut 4 (DOS 4) was a Salyut space station launched on December 26, 1974 into an orbit with an apogee of 355 km, a perigee of 343 km and an orbital inclination of 51.6 degrees. Read more

The Tecopa pupfish (Cyprinodon nevadensis calidae) is an extinct subspecies of the Amargosa pupfish (Cyprinodon nevadensis). Read more Extinct, February 2, 1970

The 1925 Charlevoix-Kamouraska earthquake was a major earthquake that struck the entire northeastern part of North America on February 28, 1925, reaching 6.2 on the moment magnitude scale. Read more

The 400 - 890 metre wide asteroid 2001 BE10 will make a close pass (58.8 lunar distances, 0.1510 AU), travelling at 10.86 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 25th January, 2010. See more The Lunar Distance (LD), th...

EphemerisDate UT R.A. (J2000) Decl. Delta r El. Ph. Mag 2013 02 01 000000 19 12 03.0 -19 08 48 3.489 2.632 25.3 9.2 17.7 2013 02 02 000000 19 13 51.1 -19 06 13 3.481 2.630 25.9 9.4 17.7 2013 02 03 000000 19 15 39.0 -19 03 34 3.473 2.627 26.4 9.6 17.7 2013 02 04 000000 19 17 26.9 -19 00 50 3.464 2.625 27.0 9.8 17.7...

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World's Largest Science Experiment comes to the Scottish Parliament The Scottish contribution to the creation and operation of the Large Hadron Collider (the LHC) will be showcased at the Scottish Parliament building in Edinburgh from Saturday 2nd February for one week. Visitors will be able to...

Former Sackville School scientist chosen for Christmas trip to Antarctica A meteorologist has been guaranteed a white Christmas after she was accepted to participate in a science expedition in Antarctica. Former Sackville School student Dr Katherine Joy will fly to the southern-most continen...

Mikhail Vasilyevich Lomonosov (November 19 [O.S. November 8] 1711 - April 15 [O.S. April 4] 1765) was a Russian polymath, scientist and writer, who made important contributions to literature, education, and science. Lomonosov was the first person to hypothesize the existence of an atmosphere o...

Cosmic Web Stripping removes gas from a very fast dwarf galaxy crossing the local web. See more

Korean Ready for Launch Friday Afternoon The launch of Korea's homegrown space rocket, dubbed Naro, will proceed as planned on Friday. Read more

Sea Launch to Launch the Intelsat 27 Spacecraft Sea Launch has been selected to launch the Intelsat 27 communications satellite in early 2013. Intelsat 27 will be placed into an optimised geosynchronous transfer orbit (GTO) utilising the highly-proven Sea Launch Zenit 3SL launch system. The la...